WORKING TOGETHER

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

Albert Einstein

Welcome Educators!

Happy Poetry Month!

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments,

shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

I write poems to figure things out.

Sarah Kay

GREAT CLASSROOM IDEA

Digital Storytelling

NDSS Socials Studies students wrote "in role" about a Black Canadian and then used Blabberize to tell the story.   To see the lesson and rubric go to Kathie McGregor's Tech Integration in Socials Studies blog.  

Digital Storytelling meets a variety of instructional needs.  

Check out some of our favourites at our digital storytelling page and our Delicious Stack.  

Check out previous great idea:  infographics (visual representation of information) in the classroom and foldables (interactive, three-dimensional, student-made graphic organizers).

Upcoming Events and News

Read a Book, tell a Story:  Invite young writers to share their stories or poems.  Go to http://www.bookweek.ca/ for details.

May 5:  Bookfest 2012.  Downtown.  Meet the authors: Join Andrea Beck, Mike Deas, Julie Flett, Michael Kusugak, Julie Lawson, Martin Springett, Joan Betty Stuchner, Paul Yee and Werner Zimmermann.  For more information go to http://www.bookfest.ca/ 

May 6th:  Deepening Inquiry and Building Curiousity - for a Healthy Learning World. Vancouver.  Network of Inquiry and Innovation.   For more information see flyer:  NOII Seminar Registration Form.pdf

Read the winter edition of ConnectED - a magazine for the families of the Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District. 

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Find out more about how to use this wiki - and how to create your own: Working with Wikis.